In Illinois, an environmentalist who spoke up at a recent public hearing has found himself the target of an FBI investigation. On July 25, Jim Bensman attended a public meeting on the proposed construction of a bypass channel for fish at a dam on the Mississippi River. Bensman has been a longtime critic of the system of locks and dams. At the public meeting Bensman suggested the dam could be destroyed. It was an idea that the Army Corps of Engineers had publicly mentioned as an option. Less than a week later an FBI agent called Bensman to determine if he was a terror threat.